How much can I recycle with Zero Waste Bags?

We acknowledge that embracing eco-friendly habits and increasing your recycling efforts may seem like an investment. However, our Zero Waste Bags offer exceptional value for money.
On average, users typically require only 4 small bags or 2 to 3 large bags annually for any specific waste stream, translating to a monthly cost of £7 to £10, depending on bag size and the type of rubbish recycled*.
Explore our informative chart to estimate how long it'll take you to fill a bag based on your unique habits.

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Zero Waste Bag - Small

Regular price £25.00

Dimensions & Capacity:
Size: 25.50 cm wide x 35 cm high
Depth: Expands to 4 cm in the middle
Holds approx. 3.5 L of waste.

Our small Zero Waste Bag takes an average of 3 months to fill based on customer return feedback. For more accurate results of units per bag/type of rubbish collected click here.

With Zero Waste bags choose to recycle one of 14 different types of rubbish listed below:

All Plastic Packaging
Crisps Packets & Snack Wrappers
Contact Lenses & Packaging
Beauty Products & Packaging
Empty Medicine Blister Packs
Petfood Packaging
Storage Media

Oral Care Waste & Packaging
Personal Protective Equipment
Stationery
Fabrics & Clothing
Food & Drink Pouches
Non-Electronic Toys
Water Filters

Your Zero Waste Bags will be shipped to you through Royal Mail within 5 working days. No need for you to be home to collect them!
Keep your Zero Waste Bag in a dry place away from wet surfaces.
Send back your full bags with InPost. Check your nearest locker location here.
Make sure to only collect one type of rubbish per bag and drop off one bag per locker.

Great way to recycle

Love the fact you can select what to recycle from big list of items, many of which would just go in a bin.
It is however pretty expensive per bag which would put many people off.
Inpost return is so easy.

Hi there, Thank you so much for your feedback! 😊
We totally understand that paid recycling solutions might not fit everyone’s budget, and we’re always working hard to keep our costs as low as possible. Our prices reflect the full supply chain: from the cost of the bags and delivery to transportation, processing, and recycling.
By the way, did you know we also offer free recycling programmes for certain waste streams?
You can check them out here: https://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/brigades

Chuffed to bits

Chuffed to bits with service, my only little disappointment is the price of the bags but hey ho nothing much is free these days, carry on the good work

Happy customer

I’m really glad to have the option to recycle most items through Zero waste bag. I know you’re trying hard to keep the prices as reasonable as possible. It just comes down to how much people will want to recycle and be responsible about around it.

Easy to use, but expensive

Great Service

We used the Zero Waste Bag to recycle blister packs; it was a very easy process and it is good to know that the blister packs are being recycled and used in a sustainable way.

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Zero Waste Bag - Medium (Christmas Edition)

Green recycling bag for Christmas waste with decorative items on a table in a festive living room.

Zero Waste Bag - Medium (Christmas Edition)

Regular price £35.00

A festive limited edition of our bestselling medium Zero Waste Bag – designed to make recycling easy during the Christmas holidays.

Every year in the UK, an estimated 3 million tonnes of additional waste are generated over the Christmas period – this bag is a small but meaningful way to reduce that impact.

Not only does this bag help recycle the unrecyclable, it also helps regrow our planet. For every bag sold, we’ll plant two trees, making it a meaningful gift for yourself or someone else.

Dimensions and capacity:
Size: 40 cm wide x 42 cm high
Capacity: Holds approximately 7 litres of waste

With the Christmas Edition Zero Waste bag you can choose to recycle one of 15 different types of rubbish listed below. In addition to the 14 types of waste accepted in the normal Zero Waste Bags, you can now also recycle all kinds of Christmas waste from wrapping paper, cellotape and their dispensers, to broken or end of life plastic Christmas decorations, and party supplies. Here is the full list of accepted rubbish:

Christmas Decorations and Party Supplies (Exclusive to this bag)
All Plastic Packaging
Crisps Packets & Snack Wrappers
Contact Lenses & Packaging
Beauty Products & Packaging
Empty Medicine Blister Packs

Pet food Packaging
Storage Media
Oral Care Waste & Packaging
Personal Protective Equipment
Stationery
Fabrics & Clothing
Food & Drink Pouches
Non-Electronic Toys
Water Filters

Your Zero Waste Bags will be shipped to you through Royal Mail within 5 working days. No need for you to be home to collect them!

Keep your Zero Waste Bag in a dry place away from wet surfaces.

Send back your full bags with InPost. Check your nearest locker location here.

Make sure to only collect one type of rubbish per bag and drop off one bag per locker.

Sturdy, roomy and does what it says it does. Seems quite pricey initially and probably not affordable for a lot of people but the price is probably justifiable. This is my first one and I’m using it for blister medicine packs which I’ve always hated throwing in the waste bin as we have many.

Great product, just a shame this is the only way to recycle some items

Thank you so much for your feedback, we’re really glad you love the product 💜
Some items don’t yet have local recycling solutions. By the way, we also have other recycling solutions, including free recycling programmes for certain waste streams.
You can check them on our Terracycle website!

Great product

My bag arrived quickly after ordering and is ideal for recycling all my medication and vitamin blister packs. So much better than adding them to landfill.

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Zero Waste Bag - Large

Regular price £45.00

Dimensions & Capacity:
Size: 60 cm wide x 59 cm high
Holds approx. 14 L of waste

Our large Zero Waste Bag takes an average of 4.5 months to fill based on customer return feedback. For more accurate results of units per bag/type of rubbish collected click here.

With Zero Waste bags choose to recycle one of 14 different types of rubbish listed below:

All Plastic Packaging
Crisps Packets & Snack Wrappers
Contact Lenses & Packaging
Beauty Products & Packaging
Empty Medicine Blister Packs
Petfood Packaging
Storage Media

Oral Care Waste & Packaging
Personal Protective Equipment
Stationery
Fabrics & Clothing
Food & Drink Pouches
Non-Electronic Toys
Water Filters

Your Zero Waste Bags will be shipped to you through Royal Mail within 5 working days. No need for you to be home to collect them!
Keep your Zero Waste Bag in a dry place away from wet surfaces.
Send back your full bags with InPost. Check your nearest locker location here.
Make sure to only collect one type of rubbish per bag and drop off one bag per locker.

Great idea

Big bag which is perfect for blister packs. I’ve told lots of people about it, so hopefully this will be used by more people. My only quibble is that it’s quite expensive to do this (£45 for the large bag) and that may put people off doing it.

Hi there,

Thank you so much for your feedback! We’re really glad to hear the bag is working well for you and that you’ve been spreading the word.

We totally understand that paid recycling solutions might not fit everyone’s budget. We’re always working hard to keep costs as low as possible, but the price reflects the full supply chain, from the cost of the bags and delivery to transportation, processing, and recycling.

By the way, did you know we also offer free recycling programmes for certain waste streams?
https://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/brigades

Thanks again for supporting recycling!

Large bags

Very good even better when you give us a big discount. I collect from many clubs in my area as you can see from the bags I buy and send to you. Maggie

First purchase

It was easy to order and arrived quickly, I think I will get a smaller size next time as I don't seem to use as many pill packets as I thought, I have had this bag months and it's nowhere near full.

Fast delivery and huge!

Great bag and arrived fast. Its huge. Going to take me ages to fill so good value for money

Recycling pill blister packs

Since Superdrug and Boots became difficult to recycle pill blister packs at (locally certainly) I have been trying to find an affordable alternative.

TerraCycle only seemed to offer very expensive (to me at least - a large box costing me more than a week’s pension!).

But when they had a special offer on waste bags recently I saw they were actually listing pill blister packs as one of the waste items you could use in them.

So I ordered a pack of three large bags and decanted the large bag of pill blister packs that I had accumulated over the last year or so into it.

I was pleased that it not only accommodated them but also those in my smaller collecting box (kept on the side in my kitchen next to my bins for council collected recycling and rubbish.

Next came the problem of returning them. I tried several places where I was told by the App I could take them but did eventually find a set of InPost Lockers at a Coop store in a town 15 miles away.

Luckily there was a lady there who knew how to use it as there were no instructions…

We found a large locker and the bag disappeared into it.

I’ve then waited a couple of weeks but have now received an acknowledgement from TerraCycle that it has been received and so I hope everything was OK!

That bag cost me £37 so I think as it swallowed about a year’s collection I can afford that! And I still have two bags to fill!

I’m so grateful not to have to put all these packs into our waste cycle!

Thank you for sharing your experience! We’re so glad our bags could make recycling your pill blister packs easier and help keep them out of the waste cycle. We really appreciate your support!

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*Based on our customers' feedback. Estimated units and average fill time are strictly estimates and can vary based on an individual customer’s usage habits. Data for the newly launched Medium bag will be added when it becomes available.

How much can I recycle with Zero Waste Bags?